Word: giveback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital-gains cut will undermine tax reform and ultimately boost the deficit, but Washington cannot say no to any kind of giveback. -- There is less than meets the eye to the rash of arms-control proposals. -- In Greenfield, Iowa, a newspaper marks its centennial and a rural community worries about its future...
Despite this giveback and the return of another 325 Orthodox sites over the past three years, church activities remain sharply restricted in the Soviet Union. Only 7,000 churches are functioning in the country today, compared with 70,000 in pre-Revolution days. Formal religious instruction is banned. And the 17 church-control laws instituted by Stalin in 1929 even forbid charitable work, although bit by bit some Christians are being allowed to help at clinics, mental hospitals and homes for the aged. There is no word as yet on the fate of the long-promised revision of Stalin...
...U.M.W. President Trumka this year was determined to break precedent. The coal miner turned lawyer wanted to win better salaries and better job security-without recourse to a strike. When the talks in Washington ended, he claimed to have secured a "totally non-concessionary" agreement. "It makes no giveback, no takeaways," said the U.M.W president. "It makes gains in wages. It makes gains in job security. It makes gains in the area of safety. It makes gains in the area of pensions...
...willing to give up rigid work rules that lead to overmanning and inefficiency. The recession may have been a turning point for unions. After rancorous negotiations, workers in both the auto and steel industries agreed to an unprecedented combination of pay cuts, changes in work rules and givebacks of benefits. But wages are still comparatively high. In the U.S., autoworkers at the Big Three companies now average $21.50 an hour in wages and benefits, compared with $12.60 an hour in Japan. Now that the recession is over, the talk in union halls is of catch-up instead of giveback...
...Kennedy and his fellow union leaders ultimately came to the rescue. The Tribune Co. won substantially everything it asked for. Total savings in jobs, over time and other costs: an eventual $50 million a year, the biggest giveback in American newspaper history. Exulted one senior executive: "This is historic. This is the first time a major newspaper has come so close to disaster and averted it by working out a survival operation with the very unions that used to kill papers...